Ron,
I posted the youtube presentation of the entire (read aloud) essay. You may
check my original post and I will post it again so you might be a good
listener. So what is your complaint?
Youtube for listening:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_36Y4mG_CI
Text:
http://www.emersoncentral.com/intellect.htm
Marsha
Marsha
> On Nov 30, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Emerson's essay on intellect
> Is a brilliant example of the distinction
> Made between objective conceptions
> Of truth and artistic ones, after deconstructing the objective conceptions of
> his day he writes:
> "Intellect lies behind genius, which is constructive. Intellect is the simple
> power anterior to
> all action or construction."
> He begins to associate intellect
> As the fruit of art and the spontaneous ...
> "If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we
> shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive
> principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the
> second, but virtual and latent. We want, in every man, a long logic;
> we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic
> is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but
> its virtue is as silent method; "
>
> Intellect is the unfolding of intuition
>
> "We are all wise. The difference
> persons is not in
> wisdom but in art. "
>
> The principle of art lies in community
> And communication ..
>
> " To genius must always
> go two gifts, the thought and the publication. The first is
> revelation, always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or
> incessant study can ever familiarize, but which must always leave the
> inquirer stupid with wonder. It is the advent of truth into the
> world, a form of thought now, for the first time, bursting into the
> universe, a child of the old eternal soul, a piece of genuine and
> immeasurable greatness. It seems, for the time, to inherit all that
> has yet existed, and to dictate to the unborn. It affects every
> thought of man, and goes to fashion every institution. But to make
> it available, it needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to
> men."
>
> If Marsha were to post the entire essay.
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